from Louisville, appears to have been a leader of the party also; he escaped. Brombach says he was commissioned a colonel in the Confederate Army and was here recruiting. Many of those persons who were engaged in the guerrilla warfare had been mustered into the service by him.

I detached Lieutenant Chrisman with 12 men from Owenton to go into Grant and capture some of the parties engaged in the fight near the mills. I understand that he has captured several of them. Captain Wileman, of the Eighteenth Kentucky, who was in the neighborhood on private business and who had come previous to that time with 100 men to Lusby's Mill and did nothing, went to Lieutenant Chrisman, assumed command, as he said by order of Warner, and took the prisoners to the stamping ground (Warner's headquarters), very much to the mortification of Lieutenant Chrisman and not altogether agreeable to my feelings. I think such conduct in Warner and Wileman reprehensible. It is truly a small matter, but indicative of the spirit. I would be much pleased if you would order Warner to send them here, Chrisman in charge. I could then make out the charges and transport them wherever you may order or try them here with the others should a trial be ordered. I am unable to report to you the facts connected with the prisoners taken by Lieutenant Chrisman for the above reasons.

Lieutenant James Dunlap, who is under my command, and who I send to take command of Captain Baker's, Captain Bradley's, and Captain Humes' Home Guards, in the capacity of major, captured some 12 or 13 prisoners before the attack made upon them and before I arrived in the county, and took command. Those prisoners are at Lexington, I presume, in charge of the provost-marshal. I am unable to make out the charges against them.

Lieutenant Dunlap and the Home Guards did good service before I arrived. The Home Guards of this place, under Captain W. C. Smith, and those above mentioned, acted in concert with the troops sent to me by Warner. All were placed under my command, and I think we cleared out Owen effectually. It appeared to be intensely Union when I left. I ordered the capture of all the arms, horses, and bridles of the men who were engaged in guerrilla warfare, and also all the arms I could find in that neighborhood in the hands of boisterous and noisy rebels.

Inclosed you will find and inventory of horses, saddles, arms, &c.

Warner ordered the mills burned. I would not allow it done, because they are owned by one Kindman, and from all the evidence I could get Kindman was a quiet, peaceable man, and had used his influence in favor of peace and submission to the laws. He rendered good service in ferreting out those persons engaged in the attack on the Home Guards, and he promises to arrest all the parties he can find in that community that were guilty and deliver them to me. He with many other persons in that vicinity have resolved to put down guerrilla warfare by force of arms and not allow any of these men to remain in their community. I acted in the premises as my own judgment dictated. I received no instructions from you. I did understand that Warner had; if so, he never communicated them to me.

I think we captured some 300 or 400 live Owen County secessionists first and last. Those who were not guilty of crime I ordered to report to the marshal, take the oath, and execute bond, &c.

The attack made upon the Home Guards was on the 20th instant, about 1 mile east of Lusby's Mill. Two men and one horse were killed on the spot. One of the rebels was shot through the thigh; we captured him in the woods; his name is William Osborne. A rebel by the name